Level 3 Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship - Oasis Academy Aspinal
OASIS COMMUNITY LEARNING · Broadacre Rd, Gorton, Manchester, M18 7NY
Teaching assistant (level 3)
Oasis Academy Aspinal is seeking a motivated and compassionate Teaching Assistant Apprentice to join our warm, inclusive, and supportive team. This is an exciting opportunity to gain valuable, hands-on experience in a vibrant primary school environment while studying towards a Level 3 Teaching Assistant qualification.
The work
As an apprentice, you’ll work closely with experienced teachers and staff to support pupils, particularly those with special educational needs (SEN). You’ll help create a positive, nurturing learning atmosphere where all children can thrive. You’ll also benefit from on-the-job training, professional mentoring, and dedicated support to help you grow into a confident, skilled education professional.
Key responsibilities:
- Support teaching and learning activities across classes, groups, or individual pupils with Special Educational Needs or Disabilities
- Help raise attainment and encourage pupil independence
- Support children’s emotional, social, and physical well-being
- Promote inclusion and equal opportunities within the classroom
- Assist with planning and delivering engaging learning activities
- Work under the guidance of class teachers, SEN coordinators, and your line manager
- Complete training and coursework as part of your apprenticeship journey
- Potentially support the personal care of pupils with SEND, such as meal and snack times, washing hands, toilet training, nappy changing, etc.
Training
Training Provider: Let Me Play Ltd:
- You’ll be working towards the Teaching Assistant
- Apprenticeship Standard (Level 3)
The programme includes:
- Understanding child and adolescent development
- Supporting literacy, numeracy, and ICT
- Meeting children’s individual needs and SEND
- Safeguarding policies and procedures
- Knowledge of legislation around confidentiality and data protection
You will begin with an initial training programme to prepare for your placement, followed by ongoing support from Let Me Play’s team throughout your apprenticeship.
- During this teaching assistant apprenticeship, you will promote self-belief, social inclusion and high self-esteem, which will play an integral part in pupils’ well-being
- You will become an essential part of the learning environment for the classroom teacher and pupils. Working to ensure pupils thrive in a positive, nurturing and safe environment
- It is an active role supporting the learner to access the curriculum and expand their knowledge. TAs play a crucial role in supporting teachers and pupils. Your work can have a significant impact on the children's learning experiences, helping them to succeed academically and personally
- Milestone 1. Keeping children safe in Education - (KCSIE Policy, child protection, safeguarding awareness, serious case reviews, health, safety and well-being legislation)
- Milestone 2. Professional Standards and Personal Accountability - (Relationships and Role Modelling, CPD and Personal development)
- Milestone 3. Child Development and Behaviours - (Child Development Practitioners, stages of development, Behaviour Management).
- Milestone 4. Curriculum and Technology - (School ICT Systems, using technology, National Curriculum key Stages)
- Milestone 5. Learning and Assessment Strategies - (Assessment procedures, feedback techniques, SEND Strategies and partnership working)
- Milestone 6. Prep for End Point Assessment
Training provider: LET ME PLAY LIMITED
What you come out with
- Potential for full-time employment within the school or wider Oasis Academy Trust
- Excellent foundation for further study or progression to higher-level roles in education
What they are looking for
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Qualifications
- Essential · GCSE English 4
- Essential · GCSE Maths 4
Things to consider
(Permitting you’re eligible for the role) Please expect to receive contact from our LMP Education Recruitment team, to discuss your application further. You will be required to complete an application form as part of Oasis Academy's safer recruitment process.
Additionally, please be aware that upon a successful offer of employment, DBS checks and references will be obtained as part of your enrolment.
The employer
Oasis Academy Aspinal is driven by a powerful ethos which aspires to treat everyone inclusively and recognises the importance of a holistic approach to education. As well as continuing to build a strong school and deliver a first-class education, it is also our desire to build an inter-connected community, recognising that educational needs to not exist in isolation from the needs of the whole person. At Oasis Academy Aspinal, we aim to: • Create a happy, stimulating, caring learning environment where risk-taking and chal-lenge is encouraged • Awaken and nurture a love of learning that will last a lifetime and provide everyone with the skills to pursue that learning independently and collaboratively • Enable everyone to reach the highest standard of which they are capable, academically and in other fields such as sport, arts and culture • Encourage all learners to develop their own interests, passions, enthusiasms, creativity and individuality • Help learners to understand and care about the world in which they live, and to believe in their ability and responsibility to change that world to make it better • Empower learners to develop a strong sense of right and wrong, good and bad, equality and justice. Give them the inner strength to act according to these values • Provide learners with the skills and understanding to live a healthy, successful life, physically, emotionally and spiritually • Foster respect, tolerance and love for others, regardless of race, gender, religion or dif-ference, within a framework of equality of opportunity and fairness • Help learners to appreciate human achievements and aspirations and to believe in their own potential to attain great things • Promote a feeling of pride and confidence in learners’ identities; as individuals, as members of our academy, as part of the local community and as citizens of the world
Workplace
- Broadacre Rd, Gorton, Manchester, M18 7NY